Former Politics Reporter for Bklyner, covering Brooklyn politics and Crown Heights/PLG/Bed Stuy. @kadiagoba
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CROWN HEIGHTS – Police are looking for suspects in connection to a shooting Thursday night that took the life of Jamal Simms of Crown Heights. Photo via Wikimedia Commons [https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/cc/Police_Line_Crime_Scene_2498847226.jpg] NYPD officers responded to reports of a man
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CROWN HEIGHTS — Elected officials rallied Thursday to make the historic Weeksville Heritage Center [https://www.weeksvillesociety.org/] part of the city’s Department of Cultural Affairs after lack of private funding threatened the Crown Heights house museum’s existence. Weeksville Heritage Center by Nic LehouxThe city agency currently provides funding
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PARK SLOPE – Amid much anticipation, Mayor Bill de Blasio, our Park Slope neighbor, finally announced his bid to become the 46th president of the United States and some Brooklyn electeds think the idea is pretty hairy. “I have a better chance of regrowing a head of hair than he has
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EAST FLATBUSH/MIDWOOD — The duel between two former staffers vying for the city’s 45th council seat ended (temporarily) Tuesday, with Farah Louis as the victor, in large part because of the votes from the Orthodox Jewish community. Farah Louis (Photo credit: Farah Louis)The top two contenders secured more
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PROSPECT HEIGHTS/CROWN HEIGHTS — The Department of Parks and Recreation celebrates the official opening of Stroud Playground with a skating event and movie night this Friday. Elijah G. Stroud Playground (Photo: Kadia Goba/Bklyner)Start the weekend off with a fun-filled three hours of roller skating and a host of
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GREENPOINT — Dawn Smalls is considering a run against U.S. Rep. Carolyn Maloney of the 12th congressional district in 2020, according to sources close to the former public advocate candidate. Dawn Smalls (Photo: Dawn Smalls’ Twitter account)Smalls, a Democrat, who placed sixth in a 17-person race this year, recently
affordable housing
CROWN HEIGHTS—State Sen. Zelllnor Myrie hosted a dozen city representatives and advocates on Thursday who informed residents on housing issues including the recent change in the city’s area median income. [https://www1.nyc.gov/site/hpd/renters/area-median-income.page] The area median income (AMI) for a family of
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DOWNTOWN BROOKLYN — Two Congressional lawmakers shot a weed ad Wednesday and they did it in Brooklyn. (From left to right) U.S. Rep. Hakeem Jeffries and U.S. Sen. Charles “Chuck” Schumer at BRIC shooting a video to promote the decriminalization of marijuana. (Photo: Courtesy of the offices of Jeffries
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RED HOOK — Nearly seven years after Superstorm Sandy, Congressional lawmakers announced, on Tuesday, an $8 million rehab for the Red Hook Recreation Center. Red Hood Recreation Center at 155 Bay St. (Photo credit: NYC Parks Dept.)The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) provided $8,038,976.40 in federal funds
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PROSPECT HEIGHTS — Days after Majority Leader Laurie Cumbo confirmed extra surveillance at a local playground [/extra-security-at-elijah-g-stroud-playground-after-gun-related-incidents/] in Prospect Heights the adjacent school underwent two more gun-related shelter-ins, including today (Monday, May 6) at 3:45 pm. A parent, who did not wish to be identified, arrived at P.S. 316
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CROWN HEIGHTS — The Weeksville Heritage Center in Crown Heights will have to shutter in July if the historic house museum doesn’t raise enough money, the museum says. Now in its 51st year, the museum, located at 158 Buffalo Avenue, needs funding to maintain its cultural facilities which focus on
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Sheepshead Bay — Former City Councilman Lew Fidler and current district leader of the 41 assembly district died Sunday, May 5. He was 62. From Left to right: Robin Fidler, Lew Fidler and Councilman Chaim Deutsch (Photo: Councilman Chaim Deutch’s Twitter account)Fidler walked into a Queens movie theatre seeking
Crown Heights
PROSPECT HEIGHTS/CROWN HEIGHTS — After “shots fired” caused several shelter-ins [/no-drills-necessary-nearby-gang-shootings-keep-local-schools-on-alert/] at a Prospect Heights school, neighbors and students get extra protection at the adjacent playground. Elijah G. Stroud Playground (Photo: Kadia Goba/Bklyner)According to a memo from Majority Leader Laurie Cumbo, ten new officers will join the 77th
Business
DITMAS PARK — Remember where Kings County Wines used to be? Well, one of the owners is adding to their empire of fine wines and spirits. Kings County Wines formerly at 1205 Cortelyou Rd. (Liena Zagare/Bklyner)Erika Lesser, who partnered with Adam Robertson to purchase T.B. Ackerson Wine and
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EAST FLATBUSH/MIDWOOD – Farah Louis, a candidate running for the 45th council district, railed against Public Advocate Jumaane Williams claiming the three-term councilman stood on her shoulders to win the district. The interview aired on Facebook via RFS Radio Tripotay Lakay last week on a segment called Breakfast Entre Nous.
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CROWN HEIGHTS — There are 49 days between Passover and Shavuot when observing Jews are not allowed to groom their hair. So chances are Levi Aronow, a new orthodox-Jewish barber in Crown Heights, is going to have a record month this June. Levi Aronow at work at ( ) Barbershop. (Photo: Instagram of